Comment 27 for bug 995715
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| Christian González (droetker) wrote Re: X defaulting keyboard locale to US at login after upgrading distribution if a Logitech Unifying Receiver is plugged in | #27 |
This bug was reported in 2012 - and is still present in Kubuntu 14.04.
How can we help to fix this?
Writing the console in the lightdm.conf is no real fix.
Why is it not possible to switch keyboard layouts according to users preferences after the user has entered hi username (or clicked on his user picture?)
The keyboard layout should not be tied to a computer (=lightdm.conf), but user specific: There could be a computer that is used by many different users, all having their own layout ("semi-public" computer, shared in a library or student's home with different people having their own account, sharing the same keyboard...)
So why not let lightdm (who IMHO is in charge of setting the layout then) decide after selecting the user which layout should be chosen? It could be done like in Unity-greeter: the greeter looks up the user desktop picture and displays it in the moment the user is selected. This must be cached in a central place anyway because the user partition could be encrypted. But that is solved in unity-greeter as well.